Question
Answer the following about American journalistic hoaxes, for 10 points each.
[10m] This writer published a fake history of the bathtub, claiming it was controversial in the U.S. before being championed by Millard Fillmore. This writer criticized the South in “The Sahara of the Bozart.”
ANSWER: H. L. Mencken [or Henry Louis Mencken]
[10e] This author complained that a series of 1835 hoax articles about fake discoveries by John Herschel plagiarized his story “The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall.” This author also wrote “The Gold-Bug” and “The Black Cat.”
ANSWER: Edgar Allan Poe
[10h] Poe later published a story presented as fact that centers on Monck Mason’s use of one of these objects. A story by another author ends with the narrator telling “you” that an enormous one of these objects that appeared in New York is a “spontaneous autobiographical disclosure.”
ANSWER: balloon [accept gas balloon or hot-air balloon; accept “The Balloon” or “The Balloon-Hoax”] (“The Balloon” is by Donald Barthelme.)
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Summary
| 2024 ESPN @ Brown | 04/06/2024 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Cambridge | 04/06/2024 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Chicago | 03/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Columbia | 03/23/2024 | Y | 7 | 21.43 | 100% | 86% | 29% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Duke | 03/23/2024 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Online | 06/01/2024 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Stanford | 03/09/2024 | N | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
Data
| Labour's Lost Lovers | Clark B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Clark A | Triple Round Robin Lovers | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Heat-Oppressed Brains | A VK a Day Keeps the Doctor Away | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| You, Me and the Big G | Eugene o'Negging | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Nobodaddy but you | Charlotte Mewing to get that chiseled farmer’s bride jawline | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago B | Oh the Missouri | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| 2 days into college and I'm 3 lectures behind | Michigan | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A Minus Minus | Noli Me Tangerine | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| BHSU | >:3 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| malcolm in the middlemarch (Purdue 1) | purdoobie brothers | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The Aum-Wein Drinchard by Amogh Tutuola | JJaryland | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| JinAh and Jordan from Wikiquiz | mnemonists | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Sandmännchen im Helikopter | NJ TRANSit (and bobby i guess) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Naocissus and Geoldmond by Hermandrew Hesse | chamPAIN and cornHELL in Columbia | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Parden the Interruption | 1.g4 Test Mixture | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| boy's jitches (ft. DMA) | bruh | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Let's Fighting Love | protobowling for soup | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UNC A | Duke | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| UNC B | UNC Hunny | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Williams et al. | Houston Junior College | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Riley et al. | Free-ish Agents | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cleo: 5/7 movie | Tunks et al. | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |